Posted by Rob MacAulay on August 24, 1997 at 10:15:50:
In Reply to: Re: The Worst of Jack Vance posted by The blunderin' pundit on August 10, 1997 at 19:46:31:
Not a lot of people know that, in the late fifties, he wrote a series of articles on home decorating for Good Housekeeping Magazine under the pseudonym of Margeret Tittwiller. Although flashes of his sardonic wit shone through (ie. using your bathroom to slaughter swine, Aug 1957), on the whole the verities of fifties women's magazines forced him into an uncharacteristically subdued tone.